Object Details
- Description
- Wooden handle for engraver's knife for cutting design in woodblock. Round, tapered, wooden handle only; cutting blade missing. One of a group of woodblock-cutter's tools used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 3 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- ID Number
- GA.03210.03
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03210.03
- Object Name
- handle
- knife
- knife handle
- Measurements
- overall: 10 cm; 3 15/16 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1412583
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-5daf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
